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To: AllansAlias who wrote (121254)	9/12/2001 3:39:47 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 436258

<<Have you no concern that heretofore moderate Muslims might feel compelled to do whatever was necessary to get a suitcase nuke or two into America. Are you ready for that?>> Nothing stopping 'em now on the sentiment front....if they had one, they'd do it now, tomorrow, or 5 years from now. Keep in mind that yesterdays attacks killed about 1/2 of the number killed immediately at Hiroshima. Gives things a little perspective. I'm a peace-loving ex-hippie like SI Bob...but a line has been crossed that demands we exact swift and sure vengence.

To: AllansAlias who wrote (121254)	9/12/2001 4:40:25 PM
From: NOW	Respond to of 436258

Why should we assume that said terrorists with these resources do not already have a nuclear device or equally dangerous biologicals?

To: AllansAlias who wrote (121254)	9/12/2001 8:06:16 PM
From: ru2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Alan, I can't believe the mindlessness of all this tough talk. Who ever was responsible for the carnage in New York was pretty organized. Do all these folks talking so tough think they don't have response waiting? Since the fall of the Soviet Union the raw materials for nuclear bombs have become more available on the black market than ever before. Nowadays a nuke as powerful as the one that hit Nagasaki can fit in a back pack. At least this is what I am told by my friends who are Physicists. How do we know that there is not a nuke hidden in a basement somewhere in LA? Two things I would think that people would have learned from the horrible carnage in NYC and DC is that America is far from invincible, and that killing innocent people is wrong. Unfortunately I am hearing a lot of the opposite. People are talking about carpet bombing Arab countries and turning them into U.S. gas stations as if America can do that and not pay a horrible price. Look at what just happened. I am not saying that nothing should be done. Of course something should be done. I am not saying we should give in to terrorism. We should not. The last thing we need to do is react to this act of violence with more mindless violence. Do we know for sure that it was Bin Laden as every one is assuming? He certainly is a candidate in my book, but how do we know it is not a new Serb terrorist group? Our Government does make mistakes in case people have forgotten that. The war in Kosovo was billed as a humanitarian war. Since the Serbs have never done anything to America they had to bill it that way. We were going to only use smart bombs and surgically remove the military targets. In the end we bombed Maternity wards, the Chinese Embassy ( Opps! wrong map ) and used cluster bombs that often injure children more than adults. Of course something needs to be done in response to this outrageous act of violence. Seems to me however that Carpet bombing and killing innocent civilians would make Americans just as evil as the people who caused the carnage at the WTC. I say this as an American and an ex New Yorker who still has friends unaccounted for in NYC. R